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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, THERN QUTWATER, of Olcott, in the county of Niagara, and State of N ew York, have invented a certain new and useful improvement in Washing Machines; and I do hereby 'declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a vertical cross-section of my improved-washing machine.

Figure 2, a perspective view of one of the wash-boards and frames detached.

Figure 3, a perspective view ofl the clothes frame detached.

Figure 4, a diagram representing a plan of one end of the machine.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

My invention consists of two convex corrugated spring wash-boards attached-to' frames held down by swinging bars at each end, adapted to lopen to allow the said boards to be inserted or removed at pleasure, and also provided with a 'set of adjusting holes and pins to hold the boards open when the said parts are combined with a clothes frame connected by brace arms with a rock-shaft, and provided with Vau adjustable gate for-.clamping the clothes in place, the whole arranged as hereinafter described'.

As represented in the drawings, A is a square or rectangular box with the posts on one side extending up, as shown at a Aa, gs.- 1 and 3. In this box rest two wash-boards B B, connected with removable frames C Il by means of coiled springs b b, which give thedesire delasticity to the boards. Thecqntiguous faces ofthe wash,4-

boards are made convex, and are provided with corrugations c e preferablyfinclining slightly downward, as

upon pivots j`.` They are held down over the wash-boards toretain them in place by horizontal pins g or equivalent. They'have also aset cf vertical holes h, through any of which are insertedpins i to hold the boards open or separated, as indicated by black lines, iig. 1. Between the posts a a is located a r'ock-shat't, E. To this is attached-a handle, 71:, and from it also extend several-arms, ZZ Z, to the' endsof which is hinged as quare orrrectangular frame, G. In the vertical sides of this frame are grooves, m m, in which slides a gate, H, retained in any desired position by a strap, fn, .and a. scrgew, o. T'he clothes are clamped and held in place by fitting in a great degree from pressure, by their falling into the open space at the bottom, where they become filled 'with water, which, when they are drawn back again through the narrow, central portion, is'expressed, and thus an altcrnateactionof absorbing and expressing the water is produced, which is very elective in washing. By rubbing for a length of time in the central portion, and dipping occasionally into the g space below, the action may be made very similar to that accomplished by hand. This convex form, also, while it is asveective as the shown 'in iig. 2, those of the one board inclining ingthe opposite directionfrom those of-*theother. The bottoms of the boards are provided with friction-rollers d d. In the ends of the machine are swinging bars D turning between thegate and the lower side of the frame. By the employment of the convex boards B instead of plane ones, as in other devices oi' this class, I am enabled, at' the extreme of each down-stroke, to remove the clothes.

plane form, relieves the great labor vconsequent upon a constant and unvaryin'g binding of the clothes in place,

by allowing a certain degree of freedom each side of the centre. lThe .expansion of the boards at the top fenables the clothes to be drawn up andadjusted, and inserted in place again without diiriculty.` The attaching of the boards t removable frames, C, enables them to be inserted and detached at pleasure; and the` employment of the swing bars I), or equivalent, not only serves to hold them in place, but the holes L therein and the pins e' enable the tops of the boards to be set at any desired distance apart, so that the clothesmay be inserted or removed, or may be rinsed up or down in the water between, with freedom. rThe arms Z Z, extending from the rock-shaft and holding the clothes frame, serve asbraces to keep thevlatter always in a .true position to run easily between the boards.v If the simple, central connection were alone used, there would be danger of displacement and irregularity.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-L The arrangement of the convex spring wash-boards -B attached to removable frames C, and of the swinging bars D or equivalent for retaining and holding open the boards, where the said partsare combined with the clothes frame G and gate H, constructed as described and for the purpose set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' THERQN oUTwATER. Witnesses:

AS. W. LocKwoon,

WM. H. OUrwArEn. 

